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The following is an open letter and reflects the author’s views alone. For information on how to submit a letter to the Opinion section, click here.
Following a petition by six faculty members in late April, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 has called a special meeting of the faculty for 4:30 p.m. on Monday, May 20.
At approximately 1 p.m. on Thursday, around 50 Princeton High School (PHS) students walked out of school to join protesters at the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the University’s Cannon Green. The walkout occurred between classes during a passing period and in between morning and afternoon AP exams, which were administered as usual. Princeton Police officers accompanied protesters to campus, which is about one mile from PHS.
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Postdoctoral researchers at Princeton have won their union. The Princeton University Postdocs and Scholars (PUPS) X account posted the results to an election to decide if they will join a union with the United Auto Workers (UAW). According to PUPS, 484 postdocs voted in favor of unionizing while 89 voted against unionization.
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Princeton gives its students much freedom within their distribution requirements. Rather than requiring a small number of specific courses, each student can take many courses that fall into a variety of “general education areas.” There are six distribution requirements in the humanities and social sciences: Culture and Difference, Epistemology and Cognition, Ethical Thought and Moral Values, Historical Analysis (HA), Literature and the Arts, and Social Analysis (SA). A.B. students are required to take one course in each category, other than Literature and the Arts and SA, in which they are required to take two courses. Doubling up in these categories implies that they are particularly important for Princetonians. Social Analysis is one of those prioritized subjects — but, as has become obvious in recent protests, good social analysis relies on a deep understanding of history. For this reason, Princeton should add a second Historical Analysis requirement to accompany the second Social Analysis requirement — because the latter cannot exist without the former.
Dear Sexpert,
Any Forbes frequenter knows its sound, but few know its story. Crowning the Cleveland Tower of the Princeton Graduate School is the campus carillon, a keyboard-based percussion instrument that commands twenty tons of bronze bells.
A group of students, faculty, alumni, and postdocs met with University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, Dean of the Graduate School Rodney Priestley, and Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs Amaney Jamal on Monday at 11:30 a.m. to discuss the demands of the ongoing sit-in on Cannon Green.
"I think we were forced into this position": Hunger strike for Palestine continues into third day: Your Daily 'Prince' Briefing.
At least 17 undergraduates began a hunger strike on Friday morning to demand that the University meet with students to discuss financial and academic disassociation from Israel and to drop criminal and disciplinary charges against the 13 students arrested for occupying Clio Hall on Monday, April 29.
As the Princeton Tigers baseball team (17–24 overall, 12–9 Ivy League) departed campus on Friday for a road series against the Columbia Lions (26–15, 17–4), the stakes could not have been higher: a single win would clinch the Tigers’ spot in the Ivy League Tournament. For a team that hadn’t been swept all season and had just taken three straight against seventh-place Dartmouth, this may not have sounded like a difficult task. However, with wins in 20 of their last 23 games, Columbia was a different class of opponent than Princeton had faced all season. Just scraping by with one win against Columbia would not be easy, but the Tigers were up to the challenge.
For some students, the semester will be over after Dean’s Date, with all their work submitted before 5:00 p.m. on May 7. For others, end-of-year work will have just begun, with take-home exams starting May 8 and final exams starting May 10. This semester, 36 departments are administering 151 final exams, five of which are remote.
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In March 1970, the University invited Native scholars, professionals, artists, and historians to campus for the First Convocation of American Indian Scholars. At the convention, chaired by Alfonso Ortiz, assistant professor of anthropology, attendees discussed Indigenous Studies and its future in higher education.
Princeton Lacrosse does not back down when there’s a title on the line.
On Friday in New Haven, Connecticut, the Princeton women’s lacrosse team (10–6 overall, 6–1 Ivy League) took the field to face off against the University of Pennsylvania Quakers (13–3, 5–2) in the first round of the Ivy League tournament. The No. 2 seeded Tigers previously upset the No. 3 Quakers at home exactly one month ago, coming out of the neck and neck game on top of their rivals. But this time, the Quakers came back with a vengeance, and were able to take down the Tigers 18–14, knocking the Tigers out of the running for the Ivy League’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
As the temperatures rise and classes come to a close, Princeton becomes a town with a hunger for music. Just a day before Princeton University’s Spring Lawnparties, the Princeton Arts Council held its third annual Porchfest celebration. on Saturday, April 27. Compared to last year, the weather conditions were marginally better — rainy weather was traded out for mild, humid, and overcast conditions. Nevertheless, a smiling crowd of all ages made it out for the music and good times.
See previous coverage of days one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten.